alt Hacker NewsI was reading HN comments yesterday shitting on modern IBM for being a non tech consulting company that has not innovated since the mid nineties.
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monocasa • yesterday at 9:57 PM
To be fair, IBM did this in the 90s with the PowerPC 615, which had PowerPC and x86 decoders on the same core.
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wmf • yesterday at 10:06 PM
The z mainframe team does good technical work but then the high price cancels out all the value of that work. I'm not sure if that counts as innovation or not.
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vablings • yesterday at 9:16 PM
There are already microcontrollers that have both arm + riscv support. This isn't something insane.
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porridgeraisin • yesterday at 9:20 PM
Those takes are wrong with or without this particular processor.
More like mid-2000s, even with the least charitable interpretation.
There was a time when IBM dominated console CPUs for a massively successful generation (PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii).